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Diamond Head Oil Refinery Superfund Site, the Glossary

Index Diamond Head Oil Refinery Superfund Site

The Diamond Head Oil Refinery is a former oil reprocessing facility located in Kearny, New Jersey, United States, that was designated as a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 10 relations: Groundwater, Heavy metals, Kearny, New Jersey, List of Superfund sites, Mexican–American War, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Recreational fishing, Sediment, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Volatile organic compound.

  2. Superfund sites in New Jersey

Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny is a town in the western part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and a suburb of Newark.

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List of Superfund sites

Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

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Recreational fishing

Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing or game fishing, is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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Volatile organic compound

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds that have a high vapor pressure at room temperature.

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See also

Superfund sites in New Jersey

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Head_Oil_Refinery_Superfund_Site